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Subject:Re: : 'author' as a verb From:Jan Boomsliter <boom -at- CADENCE -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 13 Mar 1995 07:41:11 -0800
What is this I hear? We are to accept bad language and bad usage just
because somebody else did?
I hope we are the leaders.
jb
"We do not promulgate errors."
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Isn't it too late to be worrying?
The term 'authoring tools' already seems to be established. Wouldn't we
have to unravel quite a lot of usage to get rid of 'author' as a verb?
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